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/*
 *   Creating and closing a dataset.
 */

#include <hdf5.h>
#define FILE "dset.h5"

main() {

   hid_t       file_id, dataset_id, dataspace_id;  /* identifiers */
   hsize_t     dims[2];
   herr_t      status;

   /* Create a new file using default properties. */
   file_id = H5Fcreate(FILE, H5F_ACC_TRUNC, H5P_DEFAULT, H5P_DEFAULT);

   /* Create the data space for the dataset. */
   dims[0] = 4; 
   dims[1] = 6; 
   dataspace_id = H5Screate_simple(2, dims, NULL);

   /* Create the dataset. */
   dataset_id = H5Dcreate(file_id, "/dset", H5T_STD_I32BE, dataspace_id, H5P_DEFAULT);

   /* End access to the dataset and release resources used by it. */
   status = H5Dclose(dataset_id);

   /* Terminate access to the data space. */ 
   status = H5Sclose(dataspace_id);

   /* Close the file. */
   status = H5Fclose(file_id);
}